EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING. 



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Use a good cultivator — a man in Philadelphia invented 

 the Planet Jr. I used to ship carloads of them to Mexico- 

 and China ; they are not fully appreciated in this country. A 

 man with a Planet Jr. bv actual time will take care of ten 

 acres well, while a man with a hoe will take care of one acre, 

 middling only. 



The labor question is an interesting one. New York 

 and Boston is just full of men wanting to work on the land;; 

 they don't want to live in the city ; they are starving to death 

 and you can get them into the country. Don't imagine just 

 because they don't speak English they are not as good as we 

 are. Some of them can point with pride back to the civil- 

 ized times when their ancestors were writing poetry while 

 our ancestors were living in caves, and eating snakes. Don't 

 you holler "dago" until you find out a man's pedigree. Then 

 treat them right and be a real man ; don't coop the men up 

 in quarters in which you wouldn't house your animals. No 

 wonder they rebel. 



Now for the Market Garden products : Our radishes 

 were put on the market a little earlier than the Jersey farm- 

 ers sent theirs and we got five cents for them : when they came 

 with theirs the price was down to half a cent a bunch, and' 

 we quit. Then the lettuce. The people think there is noth- 

 ing like the Big Boston head lettuce. We are gradually teach- 

 ing the people to eat the loose leaf lettuce ; we can sell any- 

 thing in the lettuce line if it is good quality. In fact you 

 can sell anything you wish to sell if it is good and you can 

 prove it. About Lady apples — I see you have some here. If 

 every farmer would plant an acre of that apple and raise good 

 ones, -he could sell them. You can't find any in the markets. 

 If you will raise good ones you can sell them all right, and 

 you can't raise too many either. 



In bunching our radishes we make the bunches so that 

 every one is good ; there are no "bum" ones in the middle. 

 We save our tops and poor vegetables for the pig, — and it 

 pays to keep a pig to eat imperfect vegetables, for we get a 

 cent and a half a pound more than is paid for swill-fed pork. 

 There is money in pigs and always will be. 



